♂Christian Zehringer

Christian Zehringer (dates unknown) is known chiefly through his daughter: two church-book entries for her, a baptism and a marriage, survive in FamilySearch’s indexes. He was the third great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his daughter Magdalena Zähringer (born about 1790).

His daughter’s marriage

On 22 January 1810 Magdalena Zähringer, aged 19 and born at Rheinweiler, married Aloys Basler, aged 23, also of Rheinweiler, at Bamlach, then in the Grand Duchy of Baden^W. Two FamilySearch indexes of that marriage entry name her parents as Christian Zehringer and Jakobea Spony, the mother written “Jakobina” in the second; no online copy of the marriage entry is known, so the names rest on the two indexes alone. An index entry for the baptism of a Magdalena on 11 June 1790, daughter of Christian Zehinger and Jacobea Schany, is most likely hers, since her age at the marriage fits, though that index does not name the parish. Christian was probably baptized on 15 August 1764, a son of Christian Zehringer and Maria Ursula Dossenbach, and Jakobea was probably born at Rheinweiler in 1766. Their marriage at Bamlach is dated 27 November 1786 in a FamilySearch index, and no other record of it is known. A FamilySearch index of the burials at Bamlach gives a Christian Zehringer, aged 36, buried there on 25 September 1800; the entry names no spouse and is probably his.

Notes

The marriage of 1786

The index entry for the marriage at Bamlach names the couple as Christian Zahringer, written with an “a”, and Jacobaea Sponi, and dates it 27 November 1786. A twin index of the same entry also exists. Both are index entries only, so the date and the place rest on the index alone.

His baptism and parents

A FamilySearch index gives the baptism of a Christianus Zehringer on 15 August 1764, a son of Christian Zehringer and Maria Ursula Dossenbach. The 1786 marriage index gives him as born in 1764 at Rheinweiler and aged 22 at the wedding, which fits. The link to him rests on the baptism index alone, and no copy of the entry itself is known, so it is a probable match, not a proved one. Another Christian Zähringer, married to Elisabetha Merz, was living after 1800 and could be the child; his birth year is not known.